[...]Did she teach her about Islam? No[...]
This boy will learn to practice Islam from his responsible uncle, not from fox news. [...]

You see, it's people like you with attitude like yours who have turned me from being a liberal into an almost (neo-)conservative. You are vindicating Bush's assertion that we are witnessing, and are indeed involved in, a clash of civilizations.

He's right: I have nothing in common with an individual who thinks along the lines expressed above.

"He's right: I have nothing in common with an individual who thinks along the lines expressed above.

Sorry - like it or not, you share a common humanity. And guess what - we humans (including, of course, me) aren't always right about everything, even when we think we are.

That's why tolerance, not clashes, is preferable. In those clashes you write of, well, you can kill those who disagree with you, but you're not going to change their beliefs - just as they're not going to change yours.

The US is a little but not too much different with regards to custody.

According to U.S. law, the best interests of the child are to be served, and the best interests are presumed to be joint custody between the father and the mother.

50-50 custody prevents a woman from leaving by keeping her, through her children, bound to the biological father, even if he has never shown any interest in the children previously. Its intention is preserve the family, even if the family doesn't want to be preserved. There is also no child support from the father to the mother if there is 50-50 custody.

Rebecca Jones, who brought her son Adam to Qatar to visit his elderly grandmother, 77 year-old Miriam al-Juma, claims she was duped into signing Arabic documents which she was told were related to Adamís inheritance but were actually pertaining to a custody case.

She seriously just signed papers she didn't read that pertained to her son? Really? I can understand 'fine print' but it really is common sense.

Personally I don't agree with the situation, but I'm not a Qatari culture guru and therefore couldn't understand the full extent of the reasoning behind being this manipulative. I've heard that the children typically 'belong' to the arab families in these sorts of cases (is this the reason?), but it still seems cruel to do to a child.